NEW DELHI: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has dismissed speculation about his chances of becoming Kerala’s next chief minister, saying he is not even in the race as he is not contesting the upcoming assembly elections.In an interview with PTI, the Thiruvananthapuram MP made it clear that the chief minister should ideally be chosen from among…
NEW DELHI: India has made significant progress in reducing child deaths over the past three decades, but deaths among newborns are a cause for concern, the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation Report 2025 shows, reports Anuja Jaiswal.The country’s under-five mortality rate has declined from 127 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990…
NEW DELHI: Opposition MPs at a parliamentary committee meeting on Wednesday questioned PM Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel days before its, along with the US, attack on Iran and govt’s “silence” on the killing of the Islamic country’s supreme leader as the ministry of external affairs briefed the panel on safety and security of the…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday greeted people on the start of Navratri and the traditional Indian New Year, celebrated across the country in different forms.Extending wishes for Nav Samvatsar, Navratri, Gudi Padwa, Ugadi, Cheti Chand, Navreh and Sajibu Cheiraoba, the prime minister said these occasions mark the arrival of a new year,…
NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments Commissioner Wednesday questioned the definition of ‘industry’ settled by Supreme Court in 1978, saying how it can cover temples when most of them are maintained from surplus money generated from donations to a few of them, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.Appearing for the body which oversees administration, management…
MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has sought a “comprehensive, transparent and time-bound” probe into the Jan 28 Baramati accident that killed former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and four others. In a letter on March 6 to Union home minister Amit Shah, Fadnavis flagged concerns over safety oversight, crew deployment and discrepancies in flight…
KOLKATA: Within three days of announcing poll dates on March 15, Election Commission (EC) has transferred 60 senior IAS and IPS officers in Bengal. Seventeen of them were named election observers in other states.In latest orders since the Model Code of Conduct came into force, EC Wednesday transferred 13 IAS officers, who were serving as…
The NIA’s suspicion that the seven arrested foreigners brought in drones from Europe via Myanmar has not been confirmed Border Porous, Area Out Of Junta’s Control The NIA’s suspicion that the seven arrested foreigners brought in drones from Europe via Myanmar has not been confirmed Border Porous, Area Out Of Junta’s Control The NIA’s suspicion…
NAGPUR: Ravindra Metkar once earned Rs 150 a month working in a pharmacy. That was in 1984, when he was still a teenager. The 57-year-old farmer from Masla village in Maharashtra’s Amravati district will be travelling to an international conference on AI at Oxford University in the UK next month to share the story of…
Through his organisation, Sons of Liberty international, VanDyke claimed to train communities fighting terrorism and authoritarian regimes Mercenary. Terrorism suspect. Spy. Documentary filmmaker. Security analyst. Pro-democracy revolutionary. Self-styled American freedom fighter who fought in Libya’s 2011 war against Muammar Gaddafi. A resume built in war. Matthew Aaron VanDyke, 46, built a life that blurred every…